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Orhan Pamuk’s book stays atop bestseller chart

By IANS,

New Delhi : Nobel prize winning writer Orhan Pamuk’s “The Museum of Innocence” continued to dominate the bestseller list in the fiction category this week while “The Hindus: An Alternative History” by Wendy Doniger jumped three positions to top the non-fiction section.

Here are the top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction categories:

Non-fiction

1. “The Hindus: An Alternative History”

Author: Wendy Doniger

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.999.00

2. “The Difficulty of Being Good: On The Subtle Art of Dharma”

Author: Gurcharan Das

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

3. “Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India”

Author: William Dalrymple

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Price: Rs.499.00

4. “The Limits of Influence: America’s Role in Kashmir”

Author: Howard B. Schaffer

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.499.00

5. “India and the United States in the 21st Century: Reinventing Partnership”

Author: Teresita C. Schaffer

Publisher: The CSIS Press

Price: $35.00 (Rs.1,630)

6. “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”

Author: Mitch Albom

Publisher: Sphere

Price: Rs.495.00

7. “Making Sense of Pakistan”

Author: Farzana Sbaikh

Publisher: Foundation Books

Price: Rs.695.00

8. “The Rediscovery of India”

Author: Meghnad Desai

Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane

Price: Rs.699.00

9. “Shah Jahan: The Rise and Fall of The Mughal Emperor”

Author: Fergus Nicoll

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Price: Rs.899.00

10. “Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Chinese Premier”

Author: Zhao Ziyang

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Price: $20.00 (Rs.925)

Fiction

1. “The Museum of Innocence”

Author: Orhan Pamuk

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Price: Rs.599.00

2. “The Palace of Illusions”

Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Publisher: Picador India

Price: Rs.395.00

3. “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”

Author: Chetan Bhagat

Publisher: Rupa

Price: Rs.95.00

4. “Electric Feather: The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories”

Author: Ruchir Joshi

Publisher: Tranquebar

Price: Rs.395.00

5. “Ford County Stories”

Author: John Grisham

Publisher: Arrow Books

Price: Rs.299.00

6. “Wolf Hall”

Author: Hilary Mantel

Publisher: Fourth Estate, London

Price: Rs.399.00

7. “The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest”

Author: Stieg Larsson

Publisher: Maclehose Press

Price: Rs.495.00

8. “The Lost Symbol”

Author: Dan Brown

Publisher: Bantam Press

Price: Rs.699.00

9. “The Five Greatest Warriors”

Author: Matthew Reilly

Publisher: Orion Books

Price: Rs.595.00

10. “True Blue”

Author: David Baldacci

Publisher: Macmillan

Price: 5.99 pounds (Rs.460)

(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online).